 Welcome to Real Gear Reviews. I'm Mark from RV Love and today we're talking about the TST Tire Monitoring System Model 507 with Color Monitor. It's a really important safety tool for anyone on the road, so stay tuned. Welcome back to Real Gear Reviews. Again, this is Mark with RV Love and today we're talking about the TST Tire Monitoring System. This is something that's been on my wish list for a lot of years out on the road and so we are very excited when the folks at Techno RV reached out to us and asked us to review it. Alright, so what is this and why is it important? This is a tire monitoring system that allows you to remotely monitor both the tire pressure and tire temperature of your tires on your RV, boat, trailer, or any other vehicle. This of course dramatically increases the safety and is also a huge convenience to always know what the pressure and the temperature of all your tires are. Monitoring the tire pressure is really important in a car but it's especially important in RV because there's so much more riding on the tires. It's someone's entire home, you have a lot of people and passengers in them and being such a larger vehicle especially when you're towing something you don't have the immediate responsiveness to know if something has gone wrong which can cause an even greater issue as you're traveling down the road. So what comes in this kit? There's a three and a half inch color monitor, four sensors, a dash mount, a suction cup mount, a repeater, a detailed instruction booklet to tell you how to set it up and install the system and also a tool to be able to mount these because these have theft resistant caps. The dimensions of the monitor are about four inches by three inches by one inch and it weighs probably less than a half a pound. The sensors vary in weight whether they're the flow through or the cap sensors but I believe they're around a half of an ounce in weight so they will not be throwing off the balance on your tires. TST stands for Truck System Technologies. They offer a three-year warranty on their products. Most other companies in this industry and this type of product offer a one-year warranty. They came into existence around 2007 which is when tire pressure monitoring systems became mandatory in passenger vehicles but were not mandated in larger vehicles like semis and RVs and so that was a great opportunity to be able to provide extra safety in that market. You might have seen our recent video about our visit to an RV salvage yard and when we are there the staff mentioned that of the RVs that are totaled as a result of an accident it was 90% of the time caused by a tire failure or commonly called a blowout usually in the front tire. Having a system like this that consistently monitors all of your tire pressure and tire temperatures could dramatically reduce your risk of having an accident like that. Alright so now let's talk about some of the key features of this TST tire monitoring system. First one you might notice is that it has a color display. In fact it's the only one in the industry that has a color display. You'll see the blue that indicates both the pressure and the temperature of the tires. You'll see the white outline of what the vehicle would be whether it be the towing vehicle or the trailer or towed vehicle. You'll see orange color for the battery and also any alarms that get set off and the yellow blinking is for the tire location. This system has an automatic scrolling. It'll automatically scroll through each tire location. It's not static and it does not need to be manually gone through as some other tire pressure monitoring systems on the market and what's great about that auto scrolling is it just every five seconds goes through another tire in another location checking each one individually. Now the system consistently monitors all of the tire locations but it's just showing the results of each one as it cycles through. It's accurate to within plus or minus three PSI for pressure and also plus or minus three degrees temperature. The system is capable of monitoring pressures from 0 to 218 PSI and temperatures from minus 40 to 176 degrees Fahrenheit. This has a rechargeable battery which lasts at least six hours probably 10 or 12 hours on a single charge and why that's great is that because it doesn't need to be plugged into power you can set this up wherever you like whether it be on the dash or mounted with the suction cup mount on your window so you can put it exactly where you want it to be able to view while you're driving without having to worry about the cords. The sensors that mount onto the tires also have batteries but they have replaceable batteries that can be replaced by the end consumer. They last about a year and some systems that don't have user replaceable batteries would need to either purchase a new sensor or have them professionally installed. The base kit comes with four sensors but you can add up to 32 sensors on this system and have up to four separate trailers and why that's really great is if people tow maybe multiple items if they have a trailer and a boat and a jet ski or a tow vehicle that they switch up between what they tow behind their towing vehicle this system will automatically recognize which trailer you're towing without having to set up new sensors all the time. You just need to have additional sensors on all of those different trailers you could pull up drop off one pick up the other and drive off and the system would know which trailer you're towing and how you have set up the parameters for that trailer. TST is one of the only companies that offers two different types of sensors most tire pressure monitoring systems only have a cap type sensor which does not allow you to fill or empty air out of the tire without removing it and again being theft resistant you'd need a special tool for that. TST offers a flow-through sensor but can only be used on vehicles that have metal stems usually larger RVs or heavy trucks will have a metal stem but it is a nice feature to be able to add or take away air from those tires. One extra note on those theft resistant caps make sure you keep one of these tools in your trailer or your towing vehicle at all times so if you ever need to change that tire or add pressure to it you can easily remove that cap. One of the other features of this model 507 is that has a very small and unobtrusive antenna some other systems have long antennas that can bend break or otherwise be in the way this is nice and compact and also speaking of antenna if your vehicle is longer than 34 feet you will probably need to also install the repeater which does come included in this kit the repeater allows you to repeat the signal at a greater distance so you have a better signal up at the monitor that repeater will need a 12 volt power source that is 12 volt power when the vehicle is running and having two different mounting options it has a dash mount or a suction cup mount allows you a lot more versatility on where you want to mount this system especially not needing to be able to plug it in because of the rechargeable battery so you can see here in this driving footage I've got it mounted just on the left window with the suction cup mount it's very easy to just glance over while I'm driving and pick up any of the information I need so how much does a tire pressure monitoring system like this cost if you're looking to just have a basic kit with the four sensors four cap sensors you're probably looking at around three hundred dollars our system is a larger system we have the six flow-through sensors on our RV and an additional four sensors on our towed vehicle so we have a total of ten sensors a system like ours would cost closer to five hundred and sixty five dollars but what's great is everybody's needs could be different and you can build your system exactly to your needs alright so now let's talk about installation and setup of this tire pressure monitoring system I found it to be relatively easy to set up this system it has a very detailed instruction booklet that watch you step by step through the setup process it's easiest if you set up all the sensors on the desk and do all the parameters for it with the monitor before installing them on the tires it can also includes stickers that you will label each of the sensors so that you'll know the location that you're gonna want to place it on after you have them programmed installing my system took a little bit longer because I was filming it and because I had a couple sensors that were difficult to install because of location but I would expect that most people be able to program all their sensors and install them in about an hour with our setup being longer than 34 feet I also did need to install that repeater but I was able to install that in less than 15 minutes all right let's show you a little bit more with this scrolling through the system you can see that the yellow indicator is showing the different tire locations and it's showing the pressure and the temperature of the tire that it's showing at the time you'll see that I have different tire pressures on the motorhome and the Jeep that we're towing behind all right so now that we've talked about some of the specs and how this system set up what do I think about it being a full-time traveler safety is very important to me and tire safety is an especially important part of being safe there's a lot riding in your tires and there's a lot of damage that can be caused in if you had a tire failure a system like this that's monitoring both the temperature and the pressure of your tires can dramatically reduce your risk of having an accident related to a tire failure around 2007 it became mandated that all passenger cars had to have tire pressure monitoring systems so doesn't it make sense that you'd want something like that in your much larger vehicle like a big truck or a trailer before I had this system installed on my RV I would manually check the tire pressure on every tire location RV before every time I drove it even in bad weather which was really inconvenient not only was this really time consuming inevitably you let a little bit of air out every time you manually check your tire pressure which then of course means you need to fill the tires up far more often which another reason why I love my Viara air compressor check the description down below for a link to that separate product review the time and convenience of having a system like this is worth it just by itself but the biggest reason for having this system is of course the safety of being able to consistently monitor it because even though I was really vigilant about always checking those tire pressures I still only had the data at the beginning of the trip this system allows you to consistently monitor it in real time throughout your entire journey so if there anything goes wrong in the middle of your drive you are notified both of the temperature and the pressure change many that are tire pressure monitoring systems just have default parameters for the tires this system allows you to program them individually so that you have exact set of parameters for the setup that you have I get a lot of peace of mind knowing that the systems constantly checking for any fluctuations in tire pressure or temperature it's also been very interesting to increase the knowledge of the system as well after installing the system I can see how much the tire temperature raises if I'm using the brakes a lot in the RV because it heats up the brakes there for the wheels and the tires so it's not only a safety and a peace of mind is also a great educational tool as well I love that this system is automatically scrolling through all the different tire locations and it stays active all the time other tire pressure monitoring systems may time out and go blank or you need to manually scroll through to see different tire locations having this automatically scroll just means that every five seconds or so I can glance over and get the information I need and though I can capture that data by quickly glancing over at the monitor I don't need to be looking at it all the time because the alarms are all set in there and it's watching for them at all times and will alert me so I though I can look at the information whenever I want to I don't have to be looking at it all the time I feel so much safer having this installed on my RV my only regret is not installing this sooner I would highly recommend everyone install this as a must-have before they hit the road thanks again to Techno RV for sending this product to review we'll of course put links in the description below please leave you any comments or questions in the comment section down below as well we're happy to answer those for you thanks again for watching if you haven't already be sure to subscribe to our channel and check back regularly for new videos from road gear reviews until next time we'll see you on the road